- Dick Armey, a person who has represented three of the banks that went bellyup and a big backer of repealing Glass-Steagall Act 12 years ago, joined the cause
- Sarah Palin and Rick Perry waved the flag and were not be called on their corporatist leanings
- it was revealed that the Koch brothers are once again AstroTurfing--this time they are hijacking populism to promote corporatist causes
- various Tea Party leaders openly said that they wanted their groups to advance conservative causes
- shatter and fight the current left-right paradigm. The Tea party openly embraces it
- destroy the wretched system that only benefits a few and leads to the middle class being destroyed. The Tea Party has decided more often than not that the Republicans should be pushed even further to the right
As for other populists, especially those on the left, they are either small in number, feel powerless, or are silent on what's going on. That is unacceptable because they should not only be trying to put the Tea Partiers in their place, but they should be prodding President Obama to stop leaning on corporatist shills like Geithner and Summers. The Tea Party is as organic as GMO fish genes in a tomato so if other populists do not stop the Koch-backed frauds from spreading their lies and venom, them there is no hope for either populism taking hold in America or an overhaul of the two-party system.
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